 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts...  Queen's Quarterly - Page 271900Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Wilson - 1831 - 216 pages
...They said, "Behold, what a weariness is it!" "And ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts." "Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances." "Therefore," adds the prophet, "the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1831 - 232 pages
...They said, "Behold, what a weariness is it!" "And ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts." " Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances ?" " Therefore," adds the prophet, " the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 510 pages
...have been stout against me, saith the Lord : yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee ? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts ? And now we call the proud... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pages
...have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency ;' or with those in the Prophet; ' It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord ?' so that hence, ' their feet were... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...unnecessary. The language of the heart and of the life is interpreted in this way by God himself: " Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts f ? " And this construction... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...For he hath said, 't protitelh, a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. Job xxxiv. 9. Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts ? Mai. in. 14. lifti:i,;->,i.\... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...openly. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, said, It it hy name ? And he said, Legion ; because many devils were entere ordinance* and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? Mai. iii. 14. And the disciples... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...me, saith the LORD : yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee ? 14 Ye have said, It rs vain to serve God ; and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts ? 15 And now we call the proud... | |
 | 1834 - 740 pages
...High?" and to say, " Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence." " It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts V" Now in these circumstances,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1833 - 418 pages
...recorded as having been said or done. In Mai. ill. 14, we meet with the following words: "It is in vain to serve God ; and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance's" And in 1 Cor. xv. 32, we meet witli this maxim of profane men — "Let us eat and drink,... | |
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